Demons pushing for new training facility next to the MCG

The Melbourne Football Club is pushing to build a new training facility right next to the MCG in the same park where it played in the first ever game of Australian rules.

Squeezed out of the MCG in the 1980s, Melbourne's training base moved to the AAMI park precinct in 2010 - sharing space with the Melbourne Storm, Victory and the Demons' women's team.

Chairman Glen Bartlett says the club needs to secure a fifty-year future.

"AAMI Park the facilities are fine, but this is a long-term decision that we need to make," he said.

"That area and the MCG has always been our home for 160 years. We wrote the rules of the game. It's really special to us."

The proposed base would be in Yarra Park, right next to the 'G. Picture: AAP (AAP)

Yarra Park's north-east corner has been earmarked by the club as its preferred location to build a new training headquarters, which could include a six-storey office complex over train tracks near Jolimont Station to unite its administrative, medical and team staff.

Premier Daniel Andrews says the state has not received a detailed proposal.